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Dear Wendy

2005

Thomas Vinterberg

Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Michael Angarano, Danso Gordon ...

6.3

3,297

Drama Thomas Vinterberg returns to Sundance (It's All About Love screened in 2003) with a brand-new vision that succeeds both viscerally and intellectually. Imaginatively merging genres into a highly atmospheric love story between a boy and his gun, Vinterberg, along with screenwriter Lars von Trier, concocts a riveting allegory about the corruptible power of man's deadly invention. Dick, an 18-year-old loner, lives in a blue-collar American ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Here, the story is laughably incoherent, which would be less bothersome if the movie were not also so unremittingly pretentious"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"[A] well made but unlikable and dramatically absurd picture (...) Performances by the young thesps are serviceable"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A tedious exercise in style (...) Apart from what the movie says, which is shallow and questionable, there is the problem of how it says it (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The storyline collapses into extravagant and extravagantly boring nonsense (...) Only its regular toothache-twinges of irritation and pinprick-insults to the intelligence will keep you awake.(…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"A stylish exploration of America's gun fetish which engages the brain, but sadly leaves your heart in neutral (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"Technically, it's a finely crafted film, and Bell's performance gives it added weight—but it never earns that weight (...) The script plays like a reject from von Trier's ongoing 'USA—Land Of Opportunity' series"	NEU

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